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JERUSALEM,IN SEARCH OF ANHONEST BROKERBEVERLEY MILTON-EDWARDSDECEMBER 13,2017COMMENTARYThere is an interesting link on the White House website.Click and you will find a blunt statement.“President Trumpstands in solidarity with Israel to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our two nations and to promote security andprosperity for all.Stand with President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu.”There,of course,is no alternative linkthat asks the reader to stand with President Donald Trump and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the same way.No one who opened this link before Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel last weekwould have been surprised.The United States has always been a staunch supporter of Israel,and maintained a specialrelationship with it.Yet even so,the United States has sought,with some degree of success,to be an“honest broker”an actor that is impartial and above the dispute taking place in the ongoing negotiations between the Israelis andPalestinians.For some time now,however,its been increasingly clear that the U.S.“honest broker”role was always more of anaspiration than a reality.Even though it seeks to portray itself as impart